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Community foundations develop funds as well as make grants. They bring together people who care about their communities, they help donors achieve their charitable goals, and they invest in their communities by making effective and …

During the past decade the community foundation concept has spread rapidly around the globe. In continental Europe, much of this growth has taken place in the past six years. The first German community foundation, for …

Unlike in developed countries, formation of a community development foundation in a developing country does not necessarily depend on availability of funds from a philanthropic source. A recent study[1] found that they were formed by …

It was the passion for the idea of building community wealth that led me to East Africa. Having grown up in Tennessee and worked for years in economically disadvantaged areas of the States, and having …

In 1998, the Southern African Grantmakers’ Association (SAGA), in conjunction with the Mott, Ford and Kellogg Foundations, initiated a pilot programme in ten different communities to test the viability of the concept of community foundations …

The world’s oldest surviving community foundation – Noshir Dadrawala People in the West tend to assume that community foundations are a modern, Western innovation. This is incorrect. Probably the oldest surviving community foundation in the …

‘Everyone can be a philanthropist, everyone can help to form a powerful foundation and give significant funds to the community.’[1] This novel notion lay behind Frederick Harris Goff’s brilliant idea of creating a community foundation …

Italy is probably the Western European country that has been most affected by the fall of communism in Central and Eastern Europe. Not a single party that was active in the Italian parliament in 1989 …

Double-take. Look carefully at community foundations in the UK – they are not quite the same as in the US. While widely welcomed here, community foundations have taken time to bed in. The culture and …

The first community foundation in Russia was set up in 1998, in Togliatti, a medium-size city on the Volga with a strong business community and the largest automobile plant in Russia. Community foundations (CFs) now …